To:G. D. LEITEISEN

Written:Written in early November 1905Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVI.

      Sent from Geneva to Paris.

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      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Pleasedo take the trouble to write a short article or even a paragraph
about your interview with Guesde, Lafargue and Bracke concerning the
provisional revolutionary government and our participation in it. We need
it forProletary(or forNovaya
Zhizn,[1]depending on the circumstances). You must write, if only
a few lines, and as soon as
possible![2]

Yours,N. Lenin

[1]NovayaZhizn(New Life)—the first legal Bolshevik newspaper,
published daily from October 27 (November 9) to December 3 (16), 1905, in
St. Petersburg. After Lenin’s arrival from abroad in the beginning of
November it came out under his direct guidance.Novaya Zhiznwas
in effect the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P.

OnDecember 2, after 27 issues had come out, it was sup pressed by the
tsarist government.

[2]Duringthe Châlon Congress of the Socialist Party of France,
G. D. Leiteisen interviewed Bracke-Desrousseaux, Paul Lafargue and Jules
Guesde. To the main question concerning their attitude towards the
participation of the Russian Social-Democrats in a provisional
revolutionary government they all answered that they considered such
participation obligatory.

Thereplies were published in full inProletaryNo. 26,
November 25 (12), 1905, under the heading “Guesdists and the Participation
of the Russian Social-Democrats in a Provisional Revolutionary
Government”.